Incidentally, the reason I learned about this sudden disinterest in the war dead came about because I sent my blog friends an email regarding today’s and yesterday’s Doonesbury cartoons,* both of which take pretty nasty swipes at Obama (as well as a nasty swipe at Bush). Mike, at Flopping Aces, responded by sending me the link to his post about changing liberal Memorial Day observances.

Bottom line: liberals are pleased to have Bush out of the White House, but not as pleased as they thought they’d be to have Obama in the White House.

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*I haven’t actually read Doonesbury in more than a decade. I only read it today because someone had the papers at a swim meet I was attending. My approach when I’ve got a hard copy of the paper is always to turn to the comics first.

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Obama did his ceremonial duties Memorial Day AM, then played golf in the afternoon. No press allowed. He supposedly observed a minute of silence at 3:00PM.

There was no press – not even the O Press – and no witnesses to mark the occasion. Guess we’ll have to take their word for it.

Bet next year’s observances are even more minimal.

Charles Martel

The Doonesbury cartoon today is a discussion with Obama about the difficulty of coming up with an icon to depict him.

Remember, Trudeau is a terrible artist—he can’t even draw his own characters, which he has been drawing for almost 40 years—the same way twice. To depict real people he resorts to lame “icons,” such as the floating broken Roman soldier’s helmet he drew for eight years to signify Bush.

But now that Hopey Changiness is in the White House, what is Trudeau to do? He hides his dismay by pretending to chide Obama by having Obama compare himself to the Son of God in today’s strip. But Trudeau is an artless sort who wears his “thinking” on his sleeve. While he believes that Mr. Affirmative Action President is Christ-like, he resents that a.) he can’t come out and say so in his cartoon without looking like a fool and b.) he has no way of “icon-ing” Christ/Obama in any way that shows imagination or artfulness, while giving no offense to millions of Christians.

So he shifts his dilemma onto Obama. It’s Obama, see, who’s creating these comparisons to Christ!

Could it be that we may be witnessing the emergence of a horde of narcissists who are coming to resent having to pay homage to the greatest narcissist of all?